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T. D. WILSON.

COMBINED FENCE AND WATER GATE. No. 363,350. ented y 17, 1887.

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COMBINED FENCE AND WATER GATE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 363,350, dated May 17,1887.

Application filed September 28, 1886. Serial No. 214,745.

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, THOMAS D. WILSON, a citizen of the United States,residing at Holly Grove, in the county of Monroe and State of Arkansas,have invented certain new and useful Improvements in a Combined Fenceand Water-Gate; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full,clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enableothers skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use thesame.

This invention relates to gates for fences for low and marshy ground,and has for its object to provide a simple, durable water-gate whichwill exclude stock and which cannot be overturned by the wind or washedaway by freshets; and it consists of the parts and combinations ofparts, hereinafter described, and claimed.

In the accompanying drawing, forming a part of this specification, thefigure is a side elevation of my Watergate, one of the posts beingpartly broken away to show the end of the top bars of the gate.

Similar'letters refer to similar parts.

My gate is adapted for low and marshy ground, and in crossing creeks,branches, and land subject to overflow.

A represents the posts of the main section of the gate, and B thegateway. These posts in practice should be at least twice the length ofthe adjacent posts, and they are driven into the banks of the streamtobe crossed at lowwater mark a sufficent depth to attain solidity. Around opening, b, is bored into the posts A, about five feet above thewater,and the ends of the upper bar, 0, of the gate inserted therein, Asis clearly shown in the right-hand post, A, the ends of this bar Carerounded and agroove, 0, cut therein at a short distance from the end.

Running through from each side of the posts, immediately above theopening I), and at right angle thereto, are square openings d, in whicha key, h, is inserted, and which fits in the groove 0 of the bar (3, andthus prevents the same from working out of the openings b. D

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are slats the upper ends of which are nailed to the bar 0, and whichextend down to the surface of the water, immediately above which -astrip or bar, E, is nailed to them, thus com- To the upper part of theposts above the bars v E, which support the last-named gates, guardgatesF are hinged, so that they may swing outwardly or toward the bank toform a guard for and protection to the lower gates when the water isrising and falling. These gates are formed of bars G, arranged like aright-angled triangle, and are provided with slats O and abut against astop, D, in the upper bar, E, of the auxiliary gates 13.

While for the sake of convenience the abovedescribed construction isdesignated a gate, yet it is not a gate in the sense of a passageway toan inclosure.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire tosecure by Letters Patent, is B The hereinbefore-dcscribed water-gate,consisting of the post A, having the openings 1) d, the gate 13, theupper bar, 0, having the rounded ends, and grooves c therein, the keysh, the auxiliary gates B, and the hinged guardgates F, formed like arightangled triangle and adapted to swing outwardly against the banks ofthe stream.

In testimony whereof I affix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

THOS. D. WILSON.

. \Vitnesses:

O. H. BOYD, CHAS. T. PRIDE.

